Server-side scripting guide

ASP and PHP - server-side script

HTML files can contain text, HTML tags and scripts.

Server-side scripting is programming the server behavior. This is called server-side script or server scripts.

Client-side scripting is programming browser behavior. (See JavaScript primary curriculum).

Typically, when a browser requests a HTML file, the server returns this file, but if the file containing the server-side scripting, before this HTML file as plain HTML to be .

What server script do?

Web page to dynamically edit, change or add any content

User requests or data from the HTML form submission in response

Accessing data or database and to return the results browser

For different users to customize the page

Improve web security, so that your page code will not be checked to see through the browser

Important: Because the script is executed on the server, the browser does not support script in case you can display the file server!

ASP and PHP

In W3CSchool, we demonstrate server-side scripting by using Active Server Pages (ASP) and Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP).

ASP examples

By ASP to write text

By ASP how to write text.

Adding HTML to text

How HTML tags to format text.